Despite the many issues affecting women's health and lives, bills to further restrict abortion are likely to be the primary focus of your legislature's session this year. As a result of this extensive attention to this one aspect of pregnant women's lives, chances are that your state legislature will not address many other health issues of concern to pregnant women and mothers — not breast cancer nor heart disease, not the lack of health insurance for millions of women and children nor the lack of access to mother-friendly childbirth. Here are some suggestions for action you and your state can take to ensure that policies to advance a culture of life, values the women who give that life:
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Today the Women's Media Center featured a biting NAPW commentary about a federal law entitled the "Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act." This WMC Commentary by Lynn M. Paltrow: A Modest Proposal or Why I Support the Full Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act discusses one of the many disturbing bills pending in Congress.